📅 Original date posted:2019-03-06
📝 Original message:On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:32 AM Amine Chakak via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> The idea has been floated around to switch to satoshi as a base unit.
If Satoshi wanted the currency units named after him, he would simply
have done it. I think this behaviour seems creepy and is harmful to
Bitcoin.
> The lightning network uses satoshis as a base unit.
It absolutely does not. Lightning uses units of 10 picobitcoin (1e-11
btc), which is significantly smaller.
> Pleas let me know if it would be appropriate to write a BIP for it.
Please don't.
Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
npub1f2…crwet
2023-06-07 18:16:54
in reply to nevent1q…nfa9
Author Public Key
npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwetPublished at
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